Sharing is where household apps usually go wrong. They either share everything, which nobody wants, or they share so little that the second person stops opening it.
This course is about the middle.
Lesson 1: private is where everything starts
Nothing you write is shared until you decide it is. Your entries sit on your device and stay invisible to everyone in any Space you join, including whoever administers it.
Check this for yourself before you share anything. Look at a Space you haven't shared and confirm it says private. Knowing that by having seen it beats being told.
Lesson 2: what a shared Space is allowed to hold
A shared Space is deliberately narrow, and it's a rule in the code rather than a setting.
A Space carries tasks, chores, the Household Fund, notices, Kitchen and the shopping list. Money, health and your journal are never in it, on any plan.
Neither one can hold money, health, medications or notes. Not on any tier, and not by mistake.
Free gives you one Space of each kind. Plus gives you up to 3 of each, Premium up to 6, and a Winner's Circle win doubles whichever you have. A Household you join counts as one of your Households, since you join it as one of its adults, the same as whoever made it. Joining somebody else's Team never uses any of your own allowance.
Lesson 3: make one, and invite one person
Create a household and invite the other adult. One person, not the whole family, because the first thing to find out is whether the two of you actually use it.
Put the shopping list in it. That's the feature that proves the idea fastest, since both of you will touch it within a day.
Lesson 4: chores that get done
A chore needs an owner and a day. Without both it's a wish.
Set up three, no more. Pick the three that currently cause the most friction rather than the three that sound most organized. If a chore hasn't been ticked in two weeks, it was the wrong chore and you should delete it rather than feel bad about it.
Lesson 5: a reward balance nobody argues about
Buhata is an adults-only app. Everyone who holds a profile in it is an adult, and everyone who does a chore through a shared link needs no account at all.
The Household Fund is what makes that work. A chore carries a value, ticking it off pays that value into the balance, and the ledger shows what was earned and when. Nobody has to take the number on trust, because the ledger is the number.
What you should be able to do now
- Say exactly what the other person in your house can and cannot see
- Run a shopping list neither of you has to ask about
- Keep three chores alive for a month
Next: Talking to your app.